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1 Thessalonians 3:12-4:10
Holman Christian Standard Bible
1 Thessalonians 3:12-4:10
Holman Christian Standard Bible
12 And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love(A) for one another(B) and for everyone, just as we also do for you. 13 May He make your hearts blameless(C) in holiness(D) before our God and Father at the coming(E) of our Lord(F) Jesus with all His saints. Amen.[a]
The Call to Sanctification
4 Finally then, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us how you must walk and please God—as you are doing[b]—do so even more. 2 For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
3 For this is God’s will,(G) your sanctification:(H) that you abstain(I) from sexual immorality, 4 so that each of you knows how to control his own body[c] in sanctification and honor, 5 not with lustful desires,(J) like the Gentiles who don’t know God. 6 This means one must not transgress against and defraud(K) his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger of all these offenses,[d] as we also previously told and warned you. 7 For God has not called us to impurity(L) but to sanctification. 8 Therefore, the person who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who also gives you His Holy Spirit.(M)
Loving and Working
9 About brotherly love: You don’t need me to write you because you yourselves are taught by God(N) to love one another.(O) 10 In fact, you are doing this toward all the brothers in the entire region of Macedonia.(P) But we encourage you, brothers, to do so even more,
Footnotes
- 1 Thessalonians 3:13 Other mss omit Amen.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:1 Lit walking
- 1 Thessalonians 4:4 Or to acquire his own wife; lit to possess his own vessel
- 1 Thessalonians 4:6 Lit things
1 Thessalonians 3:12-4:10
New International Version
1 Thessalonians 3:12-4:10
New International Version
12 May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other(A) and for everyone else, just as ours does for you. 13 May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless(B) and holy in the presence of our God and Father(C) when our Lord Jesus comes(D) with all his holy ones.(E)
Living to Please God
4 As for other matters, brothers and sisters,(F) we instructed you how to live(G) in order to please God,(H) as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more. 2 For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
3 It is God’s will(I) that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;(J) 4 that each of you should learn to control your own body[a](K) in a way that is holy and honorable, 5 not in passionate lust(L) like the pagans,(M) who do not know God;(N) 6 and that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister.[b](O) The Lord will punish(P) all those who commit such sins,(Q) as we told you and warned you before. 7 For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.(R) 8 Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject a human being but God, the very God who gives you his Holy Spirit.(S)
9 Now about your love for one another(T) we do not need to write to you,(U) for you yourselves have been taught by God(V) to love each other.(W) 10 And in fact, you do love all of God’s family throughout Macedonia.(X) Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more,(Y)
Footnotes
- 1 Thessalonians 4:4 Or learn to live with your own wife; or learn to acquire a wife
- 1 Thessalonians 4:6 The Greek word for brother or sister (adelphos) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God’s family.
1 Thessalonians 3:12-4:10
King James Version
1 Thessalonians 3:12-4:10
King James Version
12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
13 To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
4 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
10 And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;
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